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Carmen Ruiz Bravo-Villasante

كارمن رويث برابو بيّاسانتي

Notable figure b. 1947 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 846 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Ruiz Bravo-Villasante, Carmen (born 1947), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Field: Literature

Affiliation

Translator of Taha Husayn and Gibran into Spanish

Biography

She graduated in Semitic philology at the Complutense University of Madrid (1970), took her doctorate at the Autonomous University of Madrid (1975) and taught Arabic there. She has written on contemporary Arabic literature, and translated the third part of Taha Husayn's al-Ayyam and Gibran Khalil Gibran's letters to May Ziyada.